monitoring student behavior
To monitor my students' behaviors I have a token economy system that I explained in the Classroom Rules and Procedures section of this website. The students will have an envelope that they will keep their classroom dollars in. These will be placed in a filling system in my room so that nothing gets lost. Every time a student does something that I feel benefitted them or a classmate I will give them a dollar. Students may get dollars for different reasons depending on what they struggle with. For example, if I have a student that has a hard time turning in his/her work then I might give that student a dollar if they complete and turn in an assignment. However, if this student does not turn in an assignment I cannot take away a dollar. Once a student has a dollar it cannot be taken away. To fade this specific tool I might make it harder to earn a dollar or make them earn more dollars to go to the store. To get the whole class invested I could say that if the class as a whole gets a certain amount of money they get a pizza party.
responding to inappropriate behavior
I went over my discipline plan slightly in the Classroom Rules and Procedure section of this website. However, I will go over it again in this section. On the first day of school I will go over the rules with my students. These rules will be reinforced heavily during the first weeks of school and then throughout the rest of the year when needed. The rules are restated below. If a student does not follow these riles they will receive a consequence. Every student will have one verbal warning before further consequences are made. This warning will inlcude a polite remindered that they need to be following the class rules. If the problem behavior continues at this pojnt the student will be asked to go to a 5 minute timeout or brain break at one of the individual dests. Within the 5 minutes I will go over and discuss the student's actions with them. If the behavior continues at this point the student will be asked to spend some time outside of the classroom and a message will be sent home (phone call, email, text). If the behavior continues to happen I will suggest to the school that a FBA and BIP be written for the student so that we can replace the negative behavior with a positive behavior of the same function.
Mrs. Crecelius' Classroom Rules:
1. Respect Everyone - Self, Peers, Teachers, and School Staff
2. Be Responsible - For your actions, words, and thoughts
3. Eyes on the speaker
4. Raise your hand and wait to speak
Discipline Plan:
1. One verbal warning
2. 5 minute timeout/brain break at a desk
3. Time spent out of the classroom and note goes home
4. Student is referred to having a FBA/BIP if the behavior continues over many days and is affecting the student's and his/her peers' academics
Mrs. Crecelius' Classroom Rules:
1. Respect Everyone - Self, Peers, Teachers, and School Staff
2. Be Responsible - For your actions, words, and thoughts
3. Eyes on the speaker
4. Raise your hand and wait to speak
Discipline Plan:
1. One verbal warning
2. 5 minute timeout/brain break at a desk
3. Time spent out of the classroom and note goes home
4. Student is referred to having a FBA/BIP if the behavior continues over many days and is affecting the student's and his/her peers' academics
documentation of behavior
All of my students will keep a points sheet every day and they will carry it around all day. This point sheet will keep track of their behavior throughout the whole day. This point sheet has different categories that can go with different students. Some examples are: works on assigned work, listens to directions, raises their hand, respects others, etc. If the student does what the category asked they will get a point in that category for that time slot. However many points they get will coincide with a certain about of classroom dollars they get to then be able to spend later. I will use this data for the students' IEPs and BIPs if necessary.
self-management strategies
A self-management strategy that I will implement will be goal setting. This can be used in many ways to help students set goals for their behaviors in my classroom. One example is that if a student has a hard time completing work and has many missing assignments we can create goals together. A goal could be that the student wants to turn in 80% of their work on time. Or a goal is to complete 80% of their work at school so they do not have to take it home for homework. Another goal could be to turn in all missing work by the next Monday of every week. A second self-management strategy that I will implement is doing self-evaluations. By doing this a student might self-evaluate how well they are paying attention during class, how neatly their paper is written, how well they responded to provocation, or how well they followed directions. In self-evaluation the student records how well or to what extent the targeted behavior was exhibited. I would have to teach the student what the criteria was for the different behavior. Above I gave a few examples of how it could be used.